Washing-machine



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E. L. MANTOR.

WASHING MACHINE. No. 341,258. Patented May 4, 1886.-

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EDGAR L. MANTOR, or LITCHFIELD, MINNESOTA.

WASHING=MACHQINE.

PEPEGIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,258, dated May 4, 1886.

Application filed December 4, 1885. Serial No. 184,725.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, EDGAR L. MANTOR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Litehfield, in the county of Meeker and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVashing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,which will enable others skilled in the art to which itvappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accom panying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is aperspective view of myimprovcd washing-machine, showing the rubber swung out of the sudsbox. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the machine, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the slats of the rubber.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to reciprocatingrubber washing-machines; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the rectangular suds-box, which is preferably mounted upon legs B, and the bot tom of which is provided with a slat bottom, 0, consisting of two longitudinal bars, D, to the upper sides of which the cross-slats E are secured with intervals between them, the upper sides of these cross-slats being rounded, while the lower faces of the slats are flat, bearing upon the longitudinal bars. One end of the slat bottom is held in place by means of a lug or eleat, F, and the other end of the bottom is secured by means of hooks and staples G, and it will be seen that this end may be released, and the other end, which is inserted under the cleat, may be withdrawn after the hooked end has been raised.

The rubber consists of two arms, HH, pivoted at their ends upon arod, I, secured near the upper edges of the side pieces, near one end of the suds-box, and to the free ends'of these arms and to points near theirinner ends are pivoted, respectively, a pair of levers, J J, and a pair of links, K. The upper ends of the levers, the lower portions of which are as long as the downwardly-pending arms K, are

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connected by means of a handle, L, and the lower ends of the lovers and of the arms are connected by means of pivotal bolts or rods l\'[,which pass through the ends of the serrated slats of the rubber N. These slats 0 have their lower edges curved at the ends and serrated throughout their entire length, and the slats are placed with narrow spaces between them, so as to allow free passage for the suds or air when the machine is operated.

The horizontal arms may be tilted back out of the suds-box when not in use, the rubber being tilted with it, and the rubber will drop downward when the arms are tilted back, its gravity drawing it downward, and the pivoted levers and arms allowing it to drop into position between the baeluvardly-tilted horizontal arms, as shown in Fig. 1.

It will be seen that, the clothes resting upon the flat slat bottom of the suds-box, the clothes will be raised above all impurities which may settle in the bottom of the suds-box, and which will'drop between the slats of the false bottom, and the slats, being rounded upon the upper sides, will serve to rub the dirt out of the clothes when the clothes are reciprocated in the suds-box by means of the rubber, which may be rcciprocated by rocking the levers.

The serrated edges of the slats in the rubber will rub the clothes, and the suds and water and air may pass through the spaces between the slats of the rubber, thus allowing free circulation of suds and air in the suds-box,while the serrations of the lower edges of the slats are rounded, so as not to tear the clothes.

The slat bottom being flat, the clothes are not so liable to be rolled into a ball or bundle as they are in washingmachines having a rounded bottom, the reciprocating rubber spreading the clothes over the entire flat bottom, the sled-shaped ends of the slats obviating any tendency of the rubber to roll up the clothes as it passes over them.

The rubber may be accommodated to any thickness of the layer of clothes in the sudsbox, the horizontal arms swinging upward as thethickness of t-heiayer is increased,and the arms will in this manner allow the rubber to be reciprocated at any desired height within the box.

Then the clothes have been rubbed sufficiently the rubber may be swung out of the IOC secured to one end of the rubber and connected at their tops by a handle, a pair of links pivoted at the other end of the rubber, and a pair of arms pivotally secured to said levers and links and to the sides of the suds-box,substantially as described and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

EDGAR L. MANTOR.

XVitnesses:

EDWARD B. BANSON, PAULINE FULLER. 

